Ilias Tsagklis is a senior software engineer working in the telecom domain. He is an applications developer in a wide variety of applications/services. Ilias is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.

JCG Flashback – 2011 – W36

This is the first post in the JCG Flashback series. These posts will take you back in time and list the hot articles on Java Code Geeks from one year ago. So, let’s see what was popular back then:

8. The Truly Educated Never Graduate An interesting article on the concepts of teaching and understanding and how those apply to software development. Appropriate advice is also given (reading books, being involved with open source projects etc.)

7. What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? This article attempts to explain the commonly confused concepts of Dependency Inversion and Inversion of Control and how those relate to Dependency Injection.

5. Eclipse Shortcuts for Increased ProductivityEclipse is almost the de-facto tool when it comes to Java development. So, here is a collection of some of the most useful Eclipse shortcuts that will help you increase your productivity when working with it. Don’t forget to leave yours!

3. Problems with ORMs Undoubtedly, Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools like Hibernate have helped developers make huge productivity gains in dealing with relational databases in the past several years. However, the well-documented problems with object-relational impedance mismatch inevitably cause headaches for developers. Check out some issues that might arise.

1. The Ten Minute Build The “build” is an essential part in all software development processes. Given a development environment any developer should be able to get hold of the source code, click a button or type a simple command and run a build. The build should compile and perform its unit tests within about ten minutes. Find out why!

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